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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] WindowMaker, libPropList, and Openboxsetup.exepackages available for testing


Rich,

I was able to connect to huntharo-4 and grab setup.ini with setup.exe from
my other machine just fine.

Do you have a firewall or proxy server?  Have you told setup.exe to use your
proxy server?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Richard Drake
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] WindowMaker, libPropList, and
> Openboxsetup.exepackages available for testing
>
>
> Harold,
>
> still no luck.  we need another data point to isolate the problem
> .. somebody else needs to try to point setup.exe to that location...
>
> -rich
>
> Harold Hunt wrote:
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Hmm... you mention that you can see the directory with your
> browser... that
> > means that your browser has a connection open to my ftp
> server... and I'm
> > not sure how many connections my server allows per host.  Thus,
> you may want
> > to close your browser, wait a few minutes, then open setup.exe
> and try to
> > connect again (without opening your web browser to that
> address).  That may
> > help...
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Richard Drake
> > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:48 AM
> > > To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] WindowMaker, libPropList, and Openbox
> > > setup.exepackages available for testing
> > >
> > >
> > > Harold,
> > >
> > > I tried pointing setup.exe to
> > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/ but it tries to connect
> > > and then comes back with "Unable to get setup.ini from
> > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/";.  I'm a relative
> > > newbie .. am i missing something with setup.exe?  (I can see that
> > > directory with my browser).
> > >
> > > -rich
> > >
> > > PS:  Love the cygwin & cygwin/xfree products!
> > >
> > >
> > > Harold Hunt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Point setup.exe at:
> > > > ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/
> > > >
> > > > There is a setup.ini there that has all the XFree86 packages plus
> > > > WindowMaker, libPropList, and Openbox.
> > > >
> > > > I've tested the packages locally, but I'd like someone to do an
> > > install on
> > > > there system before I post the packages to the mirror network.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, I also figured out how to do source packages (using the
> > > generic Cygwin
> > > > build script), so each of these new packages has a source file
> > > as well (if
> > > > you wish to see what was changed to make them compile on Cygwin).
> > > >
> > > > Enjoy,
> > > >
> > > > Harold
> > >
>


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